# List of United States Coast Guard people

The following is a list of people who served in the United States Coast Guard and have gained notability through previous or subsequent endeavors, infamy, or successes:
Note: When adding a name to this list, please place the same in alphabetical order and provide a reliable verifiable source. Secondary sources such as fansites are not allowed. As a guide please see: sources. Additions that are not in alphabetical order and/or do not provide a primary reliable verifiable source will be removed.
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* Z
* See also
* References

## A

* John C. Acton – retired rear admiral who serves as the Director of Operations Coordination for DHS. Acton formerly served as Director of the DHS Presidential Transition Team.
* Derroll Adams – folk musician
* Nick Adams – actor (served 1952–1955)
* Eddie Albert – actor and activist
* Thad Allen – former commandant, incident commander for Deep Water Horizon oil spill and Hurricane Katrina disaster recovery operations.
* Gerald Arpino – choreographer

## B

* Al Barlick – professional baseball umpire, National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee (served during World War II)
* Edward T. Barry – American professional hockey player
* Panayiota Bertzikis – executive director, Military Rape Crisis Center
* Tom Blake – surfer and inventor
* Humphrey Bogart – actor (Bogart volunteered his yacht Santana (as well as himself) in 1944 for service with the Coast Guard Temporary Reserve)
* Corey Brandt – baseball executive and former baseball general manager (served 1996-2000)
* Milton H. Bren – producer (Tars and Spars), writer, director
* Beau Bridges – actor (served from 1959 to 1967 in the Coast Guard Reserve)
* Jeff Bridges – actor (served from 1967 to 1975 in the Coast Guard Reserve)
* Lloyd Bridges – actor (he was a member of Coast Guard and Coast Guard Auxiliary and did a number of public service announcements for the Coast Guard)
* Frank Brimsek – professional hockey player, National Hockey Hall of Fame inductee (Served from 1943 to 1945)
* Aaron Brown – broadcast journalist, professor of journalism at Arizona State
* Danny Joe Brown – lead singer for the southern rock group Molly Hatchet
* Erroll M. Brown – the first Coast Guard African-American admiral
* Nathan Bruckenthal – the only Coast Guardsman killed in action in Iraq, and the first KIA since the Vietnam War
* Daniel C. Burbank – second Coast Guard astronaut, Captain, USCG

## C

* Sid Caesar – comedian
* Richard R. Callahan – Coast Guard Medal recipient
* Gil Carmichael – Mississippi businessman, transportation specialist and politician
* Lou Carnesecca – college basketball coach
* Gower Champion – dancer, actor, director
* Howard Coble – congressman (North Carolina), retired Coast Guard Reserve captain
* Edwin Louis Cole – author, pastor
* Chris Cooper – actor
* Art Coulter – professional hockey player, National Hockey Hall of Fame inductee
* Warren Covington – musician and band leader (took over the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra)
* Richard Cromwell – actor
* Walter Cronkite – newscaster, member of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary and an honorary commodore

## D

* Valentine Davies – Oscar-winning screenwriter and director (Miracle on 34th Street, The Glenn Miller Story)
* Jim Davis – actor
* William D. Delahunt – congressman (Massachusetts)
* Jack Dempsey – professional boxer
* Andre Douglas – NASA astronaut
* Vernon Duke – composer

## E

* Buddy Ebsen – actor
* Blake Edwards – writer, director, producer
* Perry Ellis – fashion designer
* Edwin D. Eshleman – former U.S. Congressman, Pennsylvania

## F

* William R. "Willie" Flores – Coast Guard Medal recipient, namesake of the Sentinel-class cutter USCGC William Flores
* Arthur Fiedler – conductor, Boston Pops Orchestra
* Anton Otto Fischer – artist
* Glenn Ford – actor
* Preston Foster – actor
* William A. Fraker – cinematographer
* Elizebeth Smith Friedman – cryptanalyst for the U.S. Treasury Department and the Coast Guard

## G

* Neal Gay – professional Rodeo Hall of Fame inductee
* Charles Gibson – newscaster
* Leroy Gilbert – former officer in the United States Navy and Chaplain of the United States Coast Guard
* Arthur Godfrey – entertainer
* Gale Gordon – actor
* Sid Gordon, – two-time All-Star Major League Baseball player
* Otto Graham – professional football player and coach
* Burton Gilliam – actor

## H

* Alan Hale, Jr. – actor
* Alex Haley – writer
* Wynn Handman – actor, director
* William O. Harbach – producer
* David Hasselhoff – actor, made an honorary Commodore for his work alongside the USCG Auxiliary in 1997.
* Michael A. Healy – first man of African American descent to command a U.S. Government vessel.
* Jim Hegan – professional baseball player and coach
* Robert Horton – actor
* Tab Hunter – actor

## J

* Lew Jenkins – professional boxer and world lightweight champion
* Harvey E. Johnson, Jr. – retired Coast Guard Vice Admiral, Deputy Director of FEMA
* Victor Jory – actor

## K

* Robert Kellard – actor
* Michael Kilian – author, writer (USCG auxiliarist)
* Jack Kramer – tennis professional

## L

* Al Lamberti – Sheriff of Broward County
* Jacob Lawrence – artist
* Admiral James Loy – 21st Commandant, 2nd Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration, 2nd United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security

## M

* Guy Madison – actor
* John Mariucci – professional hockey player, National Hockey Hall of Fame inductee
* Monte Markham – actor, producer
* Victor Mature – actor (served in World War II)
* Bruce E. Melnick – NASA astronaut, first Coast Guard astronaut
* G. William Miller – businessman, Secretary of the Treasury
* Bubba Morton – baseball player
* Douglas Munro – the only Coast Guardsman to receive the Medal of Honor
* Frank Murkowski – governor of Alaska and former Alaska senator

## N

* Vice Admiral Peter V. Neffenger – Vice Commandant of the USCG, 6th Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration
* Frank Newcomb – commodore, USCG and Congressional Gold Medal recipient
* Sam Nunn – former Georgia senator

## O

* Edwin O'Connor – Pulitzer Prize-winning author
* Thomas F. O'Neil – executive
* Jess Oppenheimer – writer, director, producer of I Love Lucy television show

## P

* Arnold Palmer – professional golfer
* Ed Parker – founder of American Kenpo Karate
* George S. Patton, Jr. – awarded the Silver Lifesaving Medal for saving three boys from drowning
* Vincent W. Patton III – first African American to become Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard
* Vice Admiral David P. Pekoske – 26th Vice Comandant and 7th Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration
* Claiborne Pell – former Rhode Island senator
* J.D. Power III – businessman (served from 1953 to 1957)
* Ronald C. Prei – Coast Guard Medal recipient

## Q

* Richard Quine – actor

## R

* Al Roker – television personality, Honorary Commodore, Coast Guard Auxiliary
* Cesar Romero – actor

## S

* Walter Sande – actor
* Steve Shagan – Oscar-nominated screenwriter, film and television producer, and novelist
* Charles S. Shapiro – former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela
* Joe Simon – comic book writer, artist, editor and publisher
* Carlton Skinner – first civilian governor of Guam
* Ron Sparks – Alabama politician
* Ted Steele – radio personality
* Dorothy C. Stratton – first director of the SPARS

## T

* Gene Taylor – congressman (Mississippi)
* Emlen Tunnell – professional football player
* Ted Turner – businessman

## V

* Rudy Vallée – entertainer, musician, singer

## W

* Tom Waits – actor, singer, songwriter
* Patrick Wayne – actor
* Bernard C. Webber – Gold Lifesaving Medal awardee, author
* Henry Wilcoxon – actor
* Don "The Dragon" Wilson – martial arts master, actor
* Sloan Wilson – writer
* Kai Winding – musician
* Lothar Wolff – producer, director

## Y

* Gig Young – actor

## Z

* Paul F. Zukunft – retired commandant and admiral

## Sources

U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office